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Sunday, 13 November 2016

While in Milan I took a cookery class with the wonderful Clara at Cook In Milano. During the class I learned to make pasta, pesto, gnocchi, macaroni cheese and ice cream. It was great fun and everything was delicious and I highly recommend taking a class with Clara! I have done several classes at home, in Paris and now in Milan and I have to say the ones in Milan were by far the best organised - so good I went back for a second one! Below is the class I did first.

First job was to prepare all the

ingredients needed for the recipes -

we grated cheese, chopped up ham,

prepared basil etc..

Flour & eggs ready to make pasta

Pesto ingredients ready to be blitzed!

The pesto being made.

Here we blitzed some ham to make a filling for the gnocchi!

A little coffee break...

with delicious home made biscuits.

The gnocchi being shaped.

The gnocchi being left to dry a little before cooking.

I made spinach pasta

We rolled it up ready to cut into tagliatelle

The pasta strips are hung out to dry so

they do not stick when cooking.

Everything we made - the pasta and

gnocchi ready to cook and

the macaroni cheese.

The ice cream is churning in the

background with strawberries

ready to accompany it!

The ice cream churning and a nice prosecco aperitif while we wait:-)

The prosecco & red wine for our meal.

Lunch is served!

My lunch - it was all delicious!

The pesto was mixed into the

tagliatelle, and we made a sauce

for the gnocchi, plus the macaroni

cheese.

And the fabulous home made

ice cream with strawberries yummy - plus a shot of home made limoncello;-)

If you are ever in Milan and want to learn to cook in an authentic italian home setting and meet other visitors to Milan then look no further thanCook In Milanoand you can even combine a cookery class with a market visit! Clara offers a great selection of different classes and her website has lots of recipes to try.www.cookinmilano.com